The Oak Park Homebrewers (OPHB) is dedicated to building a community of local homebrewers and promoting homebrewing as a hobby. OPHB will be hosting a "Learn to Homebrew Day" event at Exit Strategy on November 3.

While a majority of graduates of Oak Park and River Forest High School plan to attend a two- or four-year college, the school is now working hard to make sure those students not planning on college have clearer options and a leg up based on coursework they can take while still in high school.

For some graduates and parents at Oak Park and River Forest High School, the state of postsecondary preparation — in the form of career and technical education; electives like film and culinary arts; and extracurricular activities — has been strong for years.

The number of black/African American and Latinx students at Oak Park and River Forest High School who have met all three benchmarks of post-secondary readiness is gradually improving, but the gap between white students and students of color stubbornly persists.

Four days after an African-American woman awoke to "White Power," swastikas and profanity scribbled on her garage door, she rose to find her property surrounded with a different kind of message: neon signs that read "Here with love," "Hate will never be comfortable! We stand united in fight to end racism," and hand-drawn hearts, which stood tall around the front and back sides of her townhome on the 7700 block of Harvard.

Once constructed at the corner of Chicago and Harlem avenues, village officials expect a new senior care facility to be the third-largest taxpayer in River Forest, with an equalized assessed valuation (EAV) estimated at $6.8 million.